In message <48befc6b$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Eugene Miya <eugene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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writes
>In article <fast-CE9B6B.13414030082008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Bruce in alaska <fast@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>I always figured that if you were out, farther than two days of steady
>>Hiking, from the nearest Road, in any direction, that connected to
>>somewheres else, that you would be in the "BackCountry", or Bush.
>>With that definition you would not find a lot of "BackCountry in
>>the EU, but some in the Scandinavian Countries, and mostly in their
>>Northern Parts. Same in Canada, and with Argentina, and Chile, except
>>theirs would be in the Southern regions. Here in Alaska, Two days
>>hike to the Road, puts you ON the Road System.
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>I think that there are a lot of romantic Europeans who would like to
>think they retain some degree of backcountry.
The word backcountry isn't used in Europe so most people wouldn't know
what it meant. (The spell checker for my British email programme doesn't
even accept it as a real word). Many Europeans are romantically attached
to "nature". There's still plenty of nature in Europe.
>Your problem then becomes
>enumerating the qualities (and the quantities) and it starts to become a
>matter of nit picking. I think the land problem comes from areas like
>bogs and tundra which are part time submerged, deltas, swamps, glades.
>
>Clearly you can get frostbite and hypothermia in Boston. Happens in
>those areas every winter. Avalanches happen in high latitude, urban
>steep relief areas. Does that make them backcountry? Floyd argues
Barrow is
>backcountry. You don't have hospitals in backcountry. So enumerate
away.
How far from a hospital do you have to be for it to be backcountry? By
road or by air? Time or distance?
>My favorite is having something which might eat you. But you need an
>operational and legal definition (the why's and how's of what you want
>to do).
Why do you need an operational and legal definition?
>
>
>I watched the Haul Road on Monday on Worst Jobs. Quite amusing.
>They had it pretty cushy.
>Next week appears to be gold panning/mining. And there appears to be a
>mountain rescue segment! At least 4 AK episodes. Oh Cyli would love
this.
>
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Chris Townsend
http://www.auchnarrow.demon.co.uk
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